Minutes of the 14 November 2012 Teleconference Austin-585 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 15 November, 2012
Attendees
Don Cragun, PASC OR
Andrew Josey, The Open Group (partial)
Geoff Clare, The Open Group
Eric Blake, Red Hat
Joerg Schilling, Fraunhofer Society
Mark Brown, IBM, TOG OR
Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC OR
Nathan Weeks, Iowa State University
Apologies
Jim Pugsley, Oracle
* General News
We heard from Michael Kipness, the IEEE Staff liaison this week.
We may need to run another IEEE ballot as the rules say that we
have to provide the current standard and the changes to the standard,
and instead we provided the changes to the standard and the current
standard with the changes merged in (which makes it easier for the
ballot group to understand how the changes will affect the final
product). Andrew has responded to the revcom comment and requested
their views on whether we have met the requirement. If not we
will withdraw the submission from the December Revcom agenda
and do the recirculation.
* Old Business
+Bug 0000561: NUL-termination of sun_path in Unix sockets OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=561
Eric has an action to update the proposal.
+Bug 0000573: Please add '+' to the portable filename character set OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=573
Joerg has an action to prepare a proposed change.
+Bug 0000592: consistent use of struct timespec OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=592
This item needs further investigation of existing implementations.
Mark reported that AIX does not have a problem with this.
Jim notes he is still looking at this.
+Bug 0000598: OH shading and new interfaces OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=598
Eric has an action to propose a new solution with self-contained headers.
Bug 0000576: No format specifiers for several types OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=576
Bug 0000599: Reserved "no thread" value for pthread_t A/M Issue 8
Bug 0000517: EBNF support OPEN
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=517
It was agreed that we need Joerg's input on this item and have
left it open for now. Andrew took an action on the 12 September
call to notify Joerg (completed after the meeting).
* Current Business
Bug 0000628: subsequent execution of semaphore operations for a semop() of a thread suspended during semop() with sem_op == 0 Accepted as Marked
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=628
Nathan Weeks joined the call to discuss further bug 628 and
semop() behavior. There was an extended discussion on
changing the description to clarify the behaviour.
We have not yet updated the bug. Two alternative changes were
proposed on IRC which Mark has saved so that he can put them back
up on IRC in the next call.
During the discussion we noted that the page has a
bug in the descriptions of semncnt and semzcnt; it should say
"threads", not "processes". We agreed that this should be
raised as a separate bug rather than including it in 628.
Next Steps
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The next call is on November 28.
This call will be for the regular 90 minutes.
http://austingroupbugs.net
See the calendar for the list of dialup numbers.
An IRC channel will be available for the meeting
irc://irc.freenode.net/austingroupbugs